Life Drawing: A Deleuzean Aesthetics of Existence

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333 I n d e x absolute power, 209–10 acceptance, 84 action desire, 19–20 without intellectual guidance, 188 active forgetting, 26–28 double affirmation, 28–29 present and, 27, 28–29 aesthetic view of world, 59 aesthetics, 205–6 aesthetics of existence, 257 Foucault and, 206 affirmation, double affirmation, 28, 149 active forgetting, 28–29 ressentiment, 29 Aion, 55–56 humans’ experience of the world, 56–57 pointlessness, 66–67, 97, 110 Aionic autonomy representation and, 106 Aionic present, 60–61 Amer Picon, 177 amor fati, 277–78 Christian idealism and, 286–87 Nietzsche, 283–85 Andre, Carl, 213, 215 animality childhood and, 117 mistakes and, 122–24 simulation, 127–28 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 119 antiblack racism, 264–65 ethics and, 257–60 respect and, 270–71 anticolonialism, 274–77 anxiety existential, 120 linguistic, 120 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1 Aristophanes (Plato), 163–64. art aesthetics and, 206 aura of, 105 category of, 212–13 classification and, 209 collections, 208 commissioned, 211–12 Equivalent III (Andre), 213, 215 Full Fathom Five (Pollock), 213, 214 graphic model of, 152–53 and money, 105–6 money and artistic significance, 108 power of, 209–10 asceticism, 40 athletics pain and, 179–81 aura of art, 105 authenticity Cavell, Stanley, 111 criteria for being, 112 grace and, 110–17 illusion of, 118 334 Index authenticity (cont.) kisses, 111–12 Kleist, Heinrich von, 113–14 living authentically, 102 meaning, 126–27 recipe for, 112 representation and, 117–18 versus scripted actions, 101–2 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 119–20 bare particular, 225 battered bruise, 243–44 Fallacy of Misplace Concreteness, 246 immorality of battering, 246–48 irregular commonplace and, 245 something or other, 252 battering beauty and, 248–50 Spinoza, 249 beauty. See also aesthetics. aesthetic view of world, 59 bare particular and, 225 battered bruise and, 242–45 becoming, 218–19 bruissement of the world, 240 Deleuze, 151–52, 236 goodness and, 248–51 imperfection and, 174, 245 jouissance, 240 Kantian account, 60 Lifting Belly (Stein), 218–19 morality and, 251–53 perfection and, 218–25, 219–25 versus pretty, 218–19 ugly and, 224–25 Yes, 215–18 becoming, 236 beauty, 218–19 becoming, 236–40 common sense, 236–37 concrete becoming, 242 counteractualization, 289–90 Deleuze, 281 fear of, 237 Nehamas, 278–79, 282–83 play and, 282–83 representation and, 237–38 Being and Time (Heidegger), 188–89 Benjamin, Walter aura of art, 105–6 representation, 106 Bergson, Henri, 183–84 bitter drinks, 177 Black, Sophie Cabot, 201–2 boredom pointlessness and, 80 bottle caps, 234–36 bruise. See battered bruise bruissement of language, 230 Burtynsky, Edward, 253–54 Nickel Tailings, 253–54 Cage, John, 60 26' 1.1499" for a String Player, 233 chance and, 73–74 syntax, 231 Where are we going? What are we doing?, 231 Camus, Albert, 19 caresses, 78, 229 body disorganization, 201–2 melancholy and, 93 symbolic, 101 caring equal, 259–61 individuals and, 259–60 cat dust mops, 108–9 category of art, 212–13 Cavell, Stanley authenticity, 111 The Claim of Reason, 4, 5, 9 criteria for being, 112 power of words, 7 skepticism, 5–6 Césaire, Aimé, 275–77 Césaire, Suzanne, 277 chanting, 62 childhood animality and, 117 Index 335 children innocence of, 50 Chronological moments Descartes, 55–56 Diotima and, 171–72 representational sex, 107–8 Umwelten and, 55 Chronos, 51–52 Descartes’s Chronological moments, 55–56 collections art, 208 completion, 206–7 perfection, 207–9 spoons, 206–8 collectors as metaphysicians, 208 perfection and, 208–9 common sense becoming and, 236–37 complaining, 30–33 reasons for, 34–35 conceptual representation, 134 concrete becoming, 242 counteractualization becoming and, 289–90 dancing audience for dancers, 85–86 dancers’ appearance, 84–85 inauthenticity and theatricality, 82–83 No, 86 slow pleasures and, 83 staged, 83 Deleuze, Gilles ABCs, 196–97 beauty, 151–52, 236 becoming, 281 courtly love, 12 Derrida and, 143–44 desert life, 144–45 desire, 10–11 Difference and Repetition, 102–3 diversity, 141–42 divine game, 54 Heraclitus, 51 human games, 54 The Logic of Sense (Stankovic), 287–89 repetitions, 132–39 primary, 140 secondary, 136 representation, iron collars, 132–33 ressentiment, 39–40 A Thousand Plateaus, 1–2 vulgarized Leibnizianism, 134 Yes, 139–46 Derrida, Jacques, 7–8 desire and, 149 intention, 148 iterability, 8, 140–41 life in desert, 144–45 No, 139–46 play, 139–40 The Post Card, 146 Schopenhauer and, 147...